Cell phone ban in schools

[Anonymous]

Ban won't happen this school year

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Anonymous wrote:Ban won't happen this school year

That is true

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Anonymous wrote:No. I want to be able to reach my child. It’s not like they have pay phones. We’ve had issues where I needed to get my kid.

I think you should try to manage your anxiety. Phones should be put away during the school day. You are harming your kids education by your inability to set phone limits.

If you are so keen on limits, why don’t you take away your own kids phone? Don’t take my kids away.

Then I would have to parent and I'd rather the county does that for me.

Your kid being on their phone disrupts the educational experience for all kids.

No not really. It just harms the education of kids using their phone who would find something else to distract them if phones weren't an option?.

It actually harms all kids because cell phone use frustrates the teacher and causes them to spend time on cell phone use rather than on more productive activities. Valuable class time is lost every single day because the teacher is wasting time trying to manage kids using their phones. Even if your kid has straight As, they are learning less than private school kids where there is a strict cell phone policy

I have parental controls on my kids phone so all but making emergency calls is disabled during school hours.

Agree this type of policy is unnecessary. Kids who don't value their education will find something else to distract them. I'm more concerned that teachers would have to spend half the class time trying to enforce this policy for 2-3 kids who can't stop watching tiktok instead of teaching the kids who are there to learn.

Parents here are clearly checked out. Kids can go on all the social media, youtube and more on their chromebooks. So, you take away the phone and they just use the computers. Its not about valuing education.

If you value education, advocate for better curriculums, higher level classes, textbooks and more.

Nah, it's about valuing education. Kids who are there to learn aren't going to TikTok or even have social media accounts. Most of this stuff is blocked anyway. You really need to find a new hobby.

Its NOT blocked as my child showed me how to get on it. So, keep dreaming. Plenty of work arounds. Spend more time with your kids and stop lecturing others on how to raise theirs.

You need to stop posting. You’re completely delusional.

You are delusional. You are on social media and a phone complaining about it. Those things are not blocked on MCPS computers or maybe your kids ar too young to figure it out or you are not in MCPS.

I haven’t posted once from a phone. You are clearly projecting as someone who constantly replies to every single post you disagree with… while at the same time telling others to stop posting and pay attention to their kids. Pot meet kettle.

Mine are not home... and what ever you are posting from you are still on electronics and social media.

And how do you know every poster you attempt to parent shame doesn't have kids at home either? Oh yeah, you don't. You clearly have some issues you need to deal with.

You are the one with issues ranting about being online and social media while being online and on social media. You have some issues to deal with like your social media addiction.

DP-seek help. I don’t mean this flippantly either. You continue to post and continue to repeat yourself…you’re hellbent on cellphone usage and “parenting” while you yourself won’t log off DCUM to post and seemingly neglect your own kids based on your own gauge of good parenting. Nice excuse of “they aren’t home… put your own kids in activities.” No… you sound unstable at best.

Why are you ranting on social media if you are against it? Parent your own kids.

Why are you?

[Anonymous]

Who is making a decision on a ban? Our school principal or BOE? Will this happen before school starts?

[Anonymous]

For this school year? Apparently, more other pressing matters is what they are saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who is making a decision on a ban? Our school principal or BOE? Will this happen before school starts?

LA and NYC are heading in this direction. It'll only be a matter of time before MCPS follows suit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who is making a decision on a ban? Our school principal or BOE? Will this happen before school starts?

One certainly hopes that we can start the year with cell phones banned in class and strict enforcement from all levels (teachers, AP, Principals, Security staff, Counseling).

It really isn’t that hard.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Whichever side you are on, I’m guessing a ban will happen sooner rather than later.
LA public schools recently banned cell phones. NYC public schools is about to come out with the same announcement. These 2 school districts are the 2 largest in the US so if their families can adapt, so can we. The surgeon general has also come out and said social media is harming kids. We can stick our heads in the sand or go along with prevailing evidence. Do we still want to be a school district at the forefront of education or not. Do we want to put kids first or assuage the anxiety of parents?

Putting kids first is letting parents decide. There is a need for some kids who have to communicate with parents. Your kids may be in no activities and get a bus so its no big deal, but others of us encourage our kids interests and have no bus. There are no pay phones at school.

your kid doesn't need a smartphone for this. Get them a dumb phone. It's rising in popularity amongst young people because they even realize that smartphones is doing a number on their mental health.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They can access social media too on today's flip phones. Families need to be the ones controlling the phone settings and placing restrictions. Let the schools teach (if they even do that anymore).

get them actual dumb phone. These dumb phones don't work with social media apps. It's possible.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/29/dumb-phones-are-on-the-rise-in-the-us-as-gen-z-limits-screen-time.html

https://www.fastcompany.com/90895233/why-gen-z-is-ditching-smartphones-for-dumb-phones

[ModeratelyMoco]

Related to cell phone use in schools, I was surprised when analyzing the first 1250 responses to Dr. Taylor's survey that overwhelmingly the top issue mentioned seems to be cell phone use:

https://moderatelymoco.com/part-two-data-driven-decisions-detailed-analysis-of-mcps-superintendents-survey-responses/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Whichever side you are on, I’m guessing a ban will happen sooner rather than later.
LA public schools recently banned cell phones. NYC public schools is about to come out with the same announcement. These 2 school districts are the 2 largest in the US so if their families can adapt, so can we. The surgeon general has also come out and said social media is harming kids. We can stick our heads in the sand or go along with prevailing evidence. Do we still want to be a school district at the forefront of education or not. Do we want to put kids first or assuage the anxiety of parents?

Putting kids first is letting parents decide. There is a need for some kids who have to communicate with parents. Your kids may be in no activities and get a bus so its no big deal, but others of us encourage our kids interests and have no bus. There are no pay phones at school.

your kid doesn't need a smartphone for this. Get them a dumb phone. It's rising in popularity amongst young people because they even realize that smartphones is doing a number on their mental health.

Sounds like a good plan for your kids. Let others decide what's best for them. My kids having a phone has nothing to do with their mental health. If yours are having mental health issues, get them help.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Whichever side you are on, I’m guessing a ban will happen sooner rather than later.
LA public schools recently banned cell phones. NYC public schools is about to come out with the same announcement. These 2 school districts are the 2 largest in the US so if their families can adapt, so can we. The surgeon general has also come out and said social media is harming kids. We can stick our heads in the sand or go along with prevailing evidence. Do we still want to be a school district at the forefront of education or not. Do we want to put kids first or assuage the anxiety of parents?

Putting kids first is letting parents decide. There is a need for some kids who have to communicate with parents. Your kids may be in no activities and get a bus so its no big deal, but others of us encourage our kids interests and have no bus. There are no pay phones at school.

your kid doesn't need a smartphone for this. Get them a dumb phone. It's rising in popularity amongst young people because they even realize that smartphones is doing a number on their mental health.

Sounds like a good plan for your kids. Let others decide what's best for them. My kids having a phone has nothing to do with their mental health. If yours are having mental health issues, get them help.

According to experts, and school districts, this is a wide problem and can only be solved by a whole district plan, not "let parents decide".

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Anonymous wrote:Whichever side you are on, I’m guessing a ban will happen sooner rather than later.
LA public schools recently banned cell phones. NYC public schools is about to come out with the same announcement. These 2 school districts are the 2 largest in the US so if their families can adapt, so can we. The surgeon general has also come out and said social media is harming kids. We can stick our heads in the sand or go along with prevailing evidence. Do we still want to be a school district at the forefront of education or not. Do we want to put kids first or assuage the anxiety of parents?

Putting kids first is letting parents decide. There is a need for some kids who have to communicate with parents. Your kids may be in no activities and get a bus so its no big deal, but others of us encourage our kids interests and have no bus. There are no pay phones at school.

your kid doesn't need a smartphone for this. Get them a dumb phone. It's rising in popularity amongst young people because they even realize that smartphones is doing a number on their mental health.

Sounds like a good plan for your kids. Let others decide what's best for them. My kids having a phone has nothing to do with their mental health. If yours are having mental health issues, get them help.

And if schools could count on parents to actually parent there wouldn’t be a problem. But alas, anyone who’s spent anytime inside a MS/HS recently know that it is a problem. A big problem that is interrupting and impacting teaching and learning. Since apparently years of research and recommendations telling parents to wait until kids were 14yrs -16yrs old before giving them smart phones doesn’t seemed to have worked, school districts now need to do something so they can effectively fulfill their job.

[Anonymous]

ModeratelyMoco wrote:Related to cell phone use in schools, I was surprised when analyzing the first 1250 responses to Dr. Taylor's survey that overwhelmingly the top issue mentioned seems to be cell phone use:

https://moderatelymoco.com/part-two-data-driven-decisions-detailed-analysis-of-mcps-superintendents-survey-responses/

wow, look at the count for anything related to cell phone use. Definitely a high priority for parents to implement a district wide ban on smart phone use in schools.

[Anonymous]

Can these phones be banned at the state level, like they've just apparently been done in VA?